The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.